In certain aspects. Rousseau was a hearty proponent of the spirit
of liberty, equality and fraternity. At the same time he recognized the
importance of government, law and order. Tempered freedom, makes best sense.
However, I have not studied Rousseau deeply enough to form opinions on the
finer details of his proposals.

The reason I know this quote by Rousseau so well is that my 'Lord
of the Flies' paper was based on the theme that 'Man is born free, but found
everywhere in chains'. The symbolic chains were Simon's faith, Piggy's order
and Jack's chaos, the biggest symbolic chain being 'The Beast' or 'The Lord of
the Flies' that is all in our mind, we are enslaved to it. Ralph is the human symbolizing
our struggle to find the true meaning of freedom.

In certain aspects. Rousseau was a hearty proponent of the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity. At the same time he recognized the importance of government, law and order. Tempered freedom, makes best sense. However, I have not studied Rousseau deeply enough to form opinions on the finer details of his proposals.

The reason I know this quote by Rousseau so well is that my 'Lord of the Flies' paper was based on the theme that 'Man is born free, but found everywhere in chains'. The symbolic chains were Simon's faith, Piggy's order and Jack's chaos, the biggest symbolic chain being 'The Beast' or 'The Lord of the Flies' that is all in our mind, we are enslaved to it. Ralph is the human symbolizing our struggle to find the true meaning of freedom.

And I think I've probably bored 90% of the forum with this post.

Yeah but his conclusions on law and government were often quite vague and based on false assumptions.

It's weird but we were taught that 'Lord of the Flies' is the classic antithesis to Rousseau.

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It's weird but we were taught that 'Lord of the Flies' is the classic antithesis to Rousseau.

I know, I like doing everything hatke. The teacher was very
happy with my hatke interpretation. So it was all good. It's all about
interpretation with book reports really (and if your teacher agrees with your
interpretation).

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